Annual Conference for the Investor and Business Elite to be Held on July 16, 2014 at The Pierre in New York City

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., April 1, 2014—CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, and Institutional Investor, today announced the fourth annual Delivering Alpha conference, a singular investor event, scheduled for July 16, 2014 at The Pierre in New York City.

Delivering Alpha brings together the biggest names in the hedge fund and investor communities, as well as influential political and economic leaders for a high-level discussion on the critical issues facing investors in today's global economy. Last year's meeting delivered more than $2 trillion of investable assets represented by over 110 influential institutional investors. Led by top journalists from CNBC and Institutional Investor, the 2013 Delivering Alpha conference featured one-on-one interviews and panel discussions with United States Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew; James Chanos, President and Founder, Kynikos Associates; Leon Cooperman, Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors; Preet Bharara, United States Attorney – Southern District of New York; Carl Icahn, Chairman, Icahn Enterprises; John Paulson, Founder and Managing Partner, Paulson & Co. Inc.; and Nelson Peltz, Founding Partner, Trian Fund Management L.P., among others.

Exclusive coverage of the Delivering Alpha conference will be featured on CNBC and CNBC.com.

"Delivering Alpha is a can't-miss, high-value event for attendees and CNBC's global audience," said Nikhil Deogun, SVP and Editor in Chief, CNBC Business News. "We look forward to delivering actionable and newsworthy information from the best and brightest in the business."

"Delivering Alpha is more than a conference; it is an experience, bringing together the world's greatest financial minds to explore the most important issues facing investors today," said Michael Peltz, Editor of the magazine group at Institutional Investor. "With the help of this year's esteemed advisory board, we are confident that we will deliver a newsworthy agenda that will shape and move the markets."

The conference agenda is being created in collaboration with a distinguished group of advisory board members including:

Lee Ainslie, Maverick Capital

Mary Callahan Erdoes, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Glenn Dubin, Highbridge Capital Management

David Harding, Winton Capital Management

Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises

Charles Kaye, Warburg Pincus

Paul Marshall, Marshall Wace

Jane Mendillo, Harvard Management Company

John Paulson, Paulson & Co. Inc.

Nelson Peltz, Trian Fund Management, L.P.

Larry Robbins, Glenview Capital Management

A portion of the conference proceeds will benefit The Council for Economic Education (CEE), the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to increasing the economic and financial literacy of K-12 students.

For more information about the 2014 Delivering Alpha conference including registration and sponsorship opportunities, log on to: www.deliveringalpha.com.

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